WASHINGTON (ANP) - In de Amerikaanse staat Texas is de schroefwormvlieg aangetroffen in het wild bij een eland. Een jager rapporteerde de vondst van de parasiet in Pecos County, zo meldt de inspectiedienst voor Dier- en Plantgezondheid van het Amerikaanse ministerie van Landbouw, APHIS.

Het ministerie van Landbouw en de autoriteiten van Texas gaan surveilleren in het gebied.

APHIS waarschuwt de bevolking te letten op larven van de schroefwormvlieg in wonden en lichaamsopeningen van dieren.

De parasiet werd tientallen jaren als uitgeroeid beschouwd in het gebied, maar rukt vanuit Midden-Amerika weer op. Vorig jaar staakten de Verenigde Staten de import van vee uit Mexico, maar in augustus van dit jaar werd die gedeeltelijk hervat.

In juni nog werd de schroefwormvlieg ontdekt bij een kalf in La Pryor, ook in Texas.

MARSEILLE (ANP/DPA) - Zeker drie mensen zijn om het leven gekomen en één persoon is gewond geraakt bij noodweer in de Zuid-Franse regio Bouches-du-Rhône.

Duizenden huishoudens kwamen zonder stroom te zitten. Volgens de regionale autoriteiten is het waterniveau tot "ongekende niveaus" gestegen. Wegen en spoorwegen werden geblokkeerd en telefoonlijnen raakten buiten werking.

iain.davidson100 has added a photo to the pool:

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In my experience it is quite rare that people do graffiti over murals, but this has happened all over the confetti painted in Confetti Lane. Then as I photographed, I realised that this wall has a tragic, and potentially devastating statement written on it. I do hope that someone has helped the person.
Finally, this little patch of carpark is surrounded by ledges and roofs on which there were hundreds of pigeons. I do not know why.

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Reports emerge of similar withdrawals in UAE, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain amid concerns about a return to conflict with Iran after US midterm elections

The US state department has ordered some diplomats and the families of US government employees to leave Saudi Arabia, as the gulf kingdom faces a barrage of near-daily attacks, with at least three people killed at an airport and oilfield on Wednesday evening.

Attacks on “civilian airports and other critical infrastructure” by the Iranian-supported Houthis in Yemen were highlighted as the reason for the drawdown. State department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said: “The safety and security of department personnel and their families remain our highest priority.”

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Bij onze wandeling in het park vinden we nog een paar kastanjes. Die gaan we in een potje stoppen en dan wachten we wat er uitkomt.

Plaats de cijfers 1 tot en met 9 zo in het diagram dat elk cijfer precies één keer voorkomt in elke rij, kolom, negen vetomrande 3x3 vakken én de vier grijze 3x3 vakken.

A CBC investigation found that more than 1.5 million Canadian Crime Stoppers tips spanning 25 years were exposed in a breach of the P3 Global Intel tip-management platform. About 850,000 records contained personally identifiable information, including addresses, phone numbers, emails, license plates and some banking details. Longtime Slashdot reader doconnor shares the report: The data was stolen last March by hacktivist collective Internet Yiff Machine. In a manifesto, the group said it wanted to disprove the claim by P3 Global Intel -- the company hired by Crime Stoppers to manage its tips -- that the platform was "anonymous" and "secure." A copy of the hacked data was made available to researchers and journalists, including CBC, by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a U.S. non-profit that archives and publishes hacked and leaked documents it deems to be in the public interest. The report found that more than 4,300 Crime Stoppers tipsters identified themselves by their full name, with hundreds of records containing staff warnings that individuals had "self-identified" or been "exposed," yet their information remained unredacted.

The leaked data included sensitive allegations involving murder, terrorism, drug trafficking and organized crime, with nearly 49,000 tips linked to cases cleared through arrests or criminal charges. Cybersecurity experts criticized the retention of decades-old records... "If a tip is closed, does that need to stay online?" asked cybersecurity expert Ben Coon. "The answer to that, to me, is no."

The RCMP was initially told Canadian data was unaffected, then assured that exposed Canadian records contained no personally identifiable information. This appears to contradict the CBC's findings. Furthermore, affected individuals have not been systematically notified because contacting them could further jeopardize their anonymity.

"For a system that has been designed to promise anonymity to the users, that has failed categorically," said Prof. Ali Dehghantanha, the Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity and Threat Intelligence at the University of Guelph.

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Unlabeled Puzzle Four XY graphs, 10 axis labels. Eight of the labels belong and two do not. A daily puzzle game for graphical data nerds.

This post was at least partially inspired by Are Lego fans about to "Get Lucky"?

(Mild spoiler for today's puzzle) Post title is from one of the graph names from today's puzzle

Also, not immediately obvious from the UI: you must assign all 8 of the labels (2 per graph x 4 graphs) before checking your answers. So if you are stuck on graph #1, just swipe right to the others, and you can go back & forth.